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Balpa criticises government data used for traffic light decisions

Government
Rob Gill
2 July 2021

Pilots’ union Balpa has criticised the data published by the government to justify its decisions on how countries are classified in the traffic light system.

The traffic light system has now been dismantled after being in operation since 17 May (credit benn-mcguinness-34oZS8nstfI-unsplash)

Balpa has carried out its own analysis of data published by the Department for Transport to support its last traffic light review on 24 June and found “significant gaps in the data and large amounts of suppressed information”.

“The majority of the data fields are blank, containing no or supressed information, and even the incomplete data sets only cover countries on the red or green lists,” found the union.


“No data published at all on well over 200 countries and territories currently on the amber list, preventing the travel industry on planning ahead.”